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Why Netflix Isn’t in WisdomTree’s Growth Leaders Fund – and Hasn’t Ever Been By Jeremy Schwartz, CFA, Global Head of Research; Alex Moazed, CEO of Applico FAANG is now FAMGA (Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon). This is the message Applico has been communicating for the past couple years, dating back to Alex’s Fox Business interview in 2019. And since Netflix’s annual report was released this month, Netflix’s high-growth tech story has been debunked. Instead, Netflix is just a movie studio with better digital pipes than its competitors. And, unfortunately for Netflix...

A Quarterly Economic and Market Outlook in 10 Charts or Less “I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in” (By Kenny Rogers & The First Edition, 1967) When reviewing the current state of the global economy and investment markets, we recommend focusing on market signals and weeding out market noise. We believe the five primary economic and market signals that may provide perspective on where we go from here are  GDP Growth Global growth is expected to accelerate over the course of 2021. The current Wall Street Journal Economic Forecast Survey calls for a U.S. Q1 GDP grow...

non-farm payrolls and “ U-2,” or the overall unemployment rate (not the band): While employment has risen steadily and unemployment has fallen likewise, neither has recovered their level from prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Richmond Federal Reserve Bank forecasts further declines in the headline U-2 number, especially following the recent passage of the $1.9 trillion fiscal stimulus package: When looking at employment and payroll numbers, it is helpful to distinguish between the  household and  establishment survey numbers. The household number is calculated by surve...

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.[1] In investing, this describes investors’ preference for dividends (the bird in the hand) relative to future price appreciation (two in the bush). While this preference is undeniable, the impact of dividends on company valuation represents a fault line between a traditional finance view and a behavioral finance view of markets: From a  traditional finance standpoint—where all investors are rational and markets efficient—the relevance of dividends on firm valuation can be tenuous because investors should be indifferent between dividends...

When budget deficits are running in the multi-trillions, guess what? You have to finance this huge gap.